svn_users

This plugin greps every page for users of the versioning system. Sometimes the HTML pages are versioned using CVS or SVN, if the header of the versioning system is saved as a comment in this page, the user that edited the page will be saved on that header and will be added to the knowledge base...

get_emails

This plugin greps every page for emails, these can be used in other places, like bruteforce plugins, and are of great value when doing a complete information security assessment. Plugin type Grep Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- onlytargetdomain | boole...

form_autocomplete

This plugin greps every page for autocomplete-able forms containing password-type inputs. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand exactly whats...

analyze_cookies

This plugin greps every response for session cookies that the web application sends to the client, and analyzes them in order to identify potential vulnerabilities, the remote web application framework and other interesting information. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user...

dom_xss

This plugin greps every page for traces of DOM XSS. An interesting paper about DOM XSS can be found here: http://www.webappsec.org/projects/articles/071105.shtml Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the...

web_diff

This plugin tries to do a diff of two directories, a local and a remote one. The idea is to mimic the functionality implemented by the linux command "diff" when invoked with two directories. Four configurable parameter exist: localdir remoteurlpath bannedext content This plugin will read the file...

code_disclosure

This plugin greps every page in order to find code disclosures. Basically it greps for ?.? and %.% using the re module and reports findings. Code disclosures are usually generated due to web server misconfigurations, or wierd web application "features". Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt...

cache_control

This plugin analyzes every HTTPS response and reports instances of incorrect cache control which might lead the users browser to cache sensitive contents on their system. The expected headers for HTTPS responses are: Pragma: No-cache Cache-control: No-store Plugin type Grep Options This plugin...

find_jboss

This plugin identifies JBoss installation directories and possible security vulnerabilities. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand...

blank_body

This plugin finds HTTP responses with a blank body, these responses may indicate errors or misconfigurations in the web application or the web server. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated...

rnd_hex_encode

This evasion plugin adds random hex encoding. Example: Input: /bar/foo.asp Output : /b%61r/%66oo.asp Plugin type Evasion Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand...

strange_reason

Analyze HTTP response reason messages sent by the remote web application and report uncommon findings. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand...

ghdb

This plugin finds possible vulnerabilities using google. One configurable parameter exist: resultlimit Using the google hack database released by Exploit-DB.com, this plugin searches Google for possible vulnerabilities in the target domain. Special thanks go to the guys at...

file_upload

This plugin greps every page for forms with file upload capabilities. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand exactly whats under the hood:...

domain_dot

This plugin finds misconfigurations in the virtual host settings by sending a specially crafted request with a trailing dot in the domain name. For example, if the input for this plugin is http://host.tld/ , the plugin will perform a request to http://host.tld./ . In some misconfigurations, the...

generic

This authentication plugin can login to web application with generic authentication schema. Seven configurable parameters exist: username password usernamefield passwordfield authurl checkurl checkstring Plugin type Auth Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|---...

xss

This plugin finds Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerabilities. One configurable parameters exists: persistentxss To find XSS bugs the plugin will send a set of javascript strings to every parameter, and search for that input in the response. The "persistentxss" parameter makes the plugin store all...

dir_bruter

This plugin finds directories on a web server by brute-forcing their names using a wordlist. Given the large amount of time that this plugin can consume, by default, it will only try to identify directories in the web root "/", ignoring the path that is sent as its input. Two configurable...

directory_indexing

This plugin greps every response directory indexing problems. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand exactly whats under the hood: Plugin sour...

finger_google

This plugin finds mail addresses in google. Two configurable parameters exist: resultlimit fastsearch If fastsearch is set to False, this plugin searches google for : "@domain.com", requests all search results and parses them in order to find new mail addresses. If the fastsearch configuration...

spider_man

This plugin is a local proxy that can be used to give the framework knowledge about the web application when it has a lot of client side code like Flash or Java applets. Whenever a w3af needs to test an application with flash or javascript, the user should enable this plugin and use a web browser...

find_dvcs

This plugin search git, hg, bzr, svn or cvs repositories and checks for files containing. For example, if the input is: http://host.tld/w3af/index.php The plugin will perform requests to: http://host.tld/w3af/.git/index http://host.tld/w3af/.gitignore http://host.tld/w3af/.hg/store/fncache...

robots_txt

This plugin searches for the robots.txt file, and parses it. This file is used to as an ACL that defines what URLs a search engine can access. By parsing this file, you can get more information about the target web application. Plugin type Crawl Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured...

pykto

This plugin is a nikto port to python. It uses the scandatabase file from nikto to search for new and vulnerable URLs. The following configurable parameters exist: cgidirs admindirs nukedirs extradbfile mutatetests This plugin reads every line in the scandatabase and extradbfile and based on the...

csrf

This plugin finds Cross Site Request Forgeries csrf vulnerabilities. The simplest type of csrf is checked to be vulnerable, the web application must have sent a permanent cookie, and the aplicacion must have query string parameters. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin doesnt have any user...

import_results

This plugin serves as an entry point for the results of other tools that identify URLs. The plugin reads from different input files and directories and creates the fuzzable requests which are needed by the audit plugins. Two configurable parameter exist: inputcsv inputburp One or more of these ne...

mod_security

This evasion plugin performs a bypass for modsecurity version 2.1.0 or less here: http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/BONUS-12-2007.html Important: The evasion only works for postdata. Example: Post-data Input: a=b Post-data Output : \x00a=b Plugin type Evasion Options This plugin doesnt have any us...

xst

This plugin finds the Cross Site Tracing XST vulnerability. No configurable paramaters are available. The TRACE method echos back requests sent to it. This plugin sends a TRACE request to the server and if the request is echoed back then XST is confirmed. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin...

eval

This plugin finds eval input injection vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are found in web applications, when the developer passes user controled data to the eval function. To check for vulnerabilities of this kind, the plugin sends an echo function with two randomized strings as a parameters...

google_spider

This plugin finds new URLs using google. It will search for "site:domain.com" and do GET requests all the URLs found in the result. One configurable parameter exists: resultlimit Plugin type Crawl Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- resultlimit | integer |...

wordpress_fullpathdisclosure

This plugin try to find the path in the server where WordPress is installed. Plugin type Crawl Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand exactly whats under the...

server_status

This plugin fetches the server-status file used by Apache, and parses it. After parsing, new URLs are found, and in some cases, the plugin can deduce the existance of other domains hosted on the same server. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options...

cors_origin

Inspect if application check that the value of the "Origin" HTTP header is consistent with the value of the remote IP address/Host of the sender of the incoming HTTP request. Configurable parameters are: originheadervalue Note : This plugin is useful to test "Cross Origin Resource Sharing CORS"...

find_backdoors

This plugin searches for web shells in the directories that are sent as input. For example, if the input is: http://host.tld/w3af/f00b4r.php The plugin will perform these requests: http://host.tld/w3af/c99.php http://host.tld/w3af/cmd.php http://host.tld/w3af/webshell.php … Plugin type Crawl...

un_ssl

This plugin verifies that URLs that are available using HTTPS arent available over an insecure HTTP protocol. To detect this, the plugin simply requests "https://abc/a.asp" and "http://abc.asp" and if both are equal, a vulnerability is found. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin doesnt have any...

strange_headers

This plugin greps all headers for non-common headers. This could be useful to identify special modules and features added to the server. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres...

feeds

This plugin greps every page and finds rss, atom, opml feeds on them. This may be usefull for determining the feed generator and with that, the framework being used. Also this will be helpful for testing feed injection. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options...

console

This plugin writes the framework messages to the console. One configurable parameter exists: verbose Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- verbose | boolean | False | Enables verbose output for the console | No detailed help available Sour...

dot_net_errors

Request specially crafted URLs that generate ASP.NET errors in order to gather information like the ASP.NET version. Some examples of URLs that generate errors are: default|.aspx default.aspx Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more...

http_in_body

This plugin searches for HTTP responses that contain other HTTP request/responses in their response body. This situation is mostly seen when programmers enable some kind of debugging for the web application, and print the original request in the response HTML as a comment. Plugin type Grep Option...

allowed_methods

This plugin finds which HTTP methods are enabled for a URI. Two configurable parameters exist: execOneTime reportDavOnly If "execOneTime" is set to True, then only the methods in the webroot are enumerated. If "reportDavOnly" is set to True, this plugin will only report the enabled method list if...

shared_hosting

This plugin tries to find out if the web application under test is stored in a shared hosting. The procedure is pretty simple, using bing search engine, the plugin searches for "ip:1.2.3.4" where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the webserver. One configurable option exists: resultlimit Fetch the fir...

urllist_txt

This plugin searches for the urllist.txt file, and parses it. The urllist.txt file is/was used by Yahoos search engine. Plugin type Crawl Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source...

symfony

This plugin greps every page for traces of the Symfony framework and the lack of CSRF protection. Plugin type Grep Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- override | boolean | False | Skip symfony detection and search for the csrf misprotection. | No detailed...

error_500

This plugin greps every page for error 500 pages that havent been caught by other plugins. By enabling this, you are enabling a "safety net" that will catch all interesting HTTP responses which might lead to a bug or vulnerability. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user...

content_negotiation

This plugin uses HTTP content negotiation to find new resources. The plugin has three distinctive phases: Identify if the web server has content negotiation enabled. For every resource found by any other plugin, perform a request to find new related resources. For example, if another plugin finds...

mx_injection

This plugin will find MX injections. This kind of web application errors are mostly seen in webmail software. The tests are simple, for every injectable parameter a string with special meaning in the mail server is sent, and if in the response I find a mail server error, a vulnerability was found...

dot_listing

This plugin searches for the .listing file in all the directories and subdirectories that are sent as input and if found it will try to discover new URLs from its content. The .listing file holds information about the list of files in the current directory. These files are created when download...

user_defined_regex

This plugin greps every response for a user defined regex. You can specify a single regex or an entire file of regexes each line one regex, if both are specified, the singleregex will be added to the list of regular expressions extracted from the file. A list of example regular expressions can be...

rnd_path

This evasion plugin adds a random path to the URI. Example: Input: /bar/foo.asp Output : /aflsasfasfkn/../bar/foo.asp Plugin type Evasion Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source...